TeeDub

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by TeeDub 13y ago
In hindsight, I shouldn't have been so surprised to hear of groups farming likes for profit... Are there any good articles that talk about this practice? Seems like that could be interesting...
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by TeeDub 13y ago
So, I understand that FOSS is great and we all want more open software because there are tangible benefits to working with open software. I'm less clear on why API's shouldn't be copyrightable. An API isn't just a few lines of code. It's of
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by TeeDub 14y ago
Slate.co looks like it could evolve into a viable contender in this space. I have a few qualms about the way questions are structured, but the site is pretty and nice enough.
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by TeeDub 14y ago
OneNote is pretty great. It uses SkyDrive, but is available for free on most mobile platforms (Iphone,Android,Win8 Phone) and any platform with a moderately up to date browser. (Via the web app on Skydrive)
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by TeeDub 14y ago
What do you mean when you say tester? If you mean "someone to run manual test cases," it is probably because those sorts of jobs are pure tedium... They can be outsourced to websites too. If you mean a software engineer that designs softwar
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by TeeDub 14y ago
Maybe it's just my phone (I have a Lumia and am not in a place right now to ask for someone else's phone to repro on another platform) , but it seems that the mobile site could use a slight improvement. It's a gorgeous page, but if I want t
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by TeeDub 14y ago
Maybe you could present the different options in reverse order of votes? (filtered a bit so that spammy answers aren't always first.) Changing the order of presentation can be a good way to stem cascade effects from seniority/etc. For examp
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by TeeDub 14y ago
Are there any serious benchmarks that compare the performance of Java and C#. As someone who works with both languages, I can generally but the qualitative arguments that the author is making, but I would really like to see some data...
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by TeeDub 14y ago
Maybe our community has more wide-reaching problems that could also be addressed? Sexist humor strikes me as coming from the same general jackassery that made people mock Heather Arthur's Replace project. I don't think we, as computer scien
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by TeeDub 14y ago
InclinedPlane mentioned "Working Effectively with Legacy Code," and I'd just like to add that's one of the greatest software engineering books out there. Feathers (the author) methodologically chose to copy / inspire some of his examples fr
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by TeeDub 14y ago
The book that this game originates in ("The Paradox of Self Amendment") is actually a very delightful and thought-provoking book. If you're into self-amending systems (law, software, etc), you may enjoy reading it. It's all available onlin
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by TeeDub 14y ago
>"There's also something else...rate of advancement is likely going to seem slower than it was in the past few centuries, because of a natural diminishing rate of return. To paraphrase -- I think, Stephen Colbert -- it's easy to make sc
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by TeeDub 14y ago
>"I don't think America surpassing Britain in any category was solely due to copyright laws." This may be incorrect, at least for one category (literature). There's actually some really interesting lit that argues that lax/nonexistent c
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by TeeDub 14y ago
>So you're saying: "It's very complicated, you won't understand my arguments." No, that's not at all what he's saying. He's saying that intellectual property is actually an immensely broad and complicated issue. (Rather: That's what I